The Cambria Daily Leader

m? CASTLE CINEMA. FANNIE WARD In > A GUTTER MAGDALENE, A Four-Part Laeky • Play of Dramatic Force 1 and Tragedy. t Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.

RUMANIANS FALL BACK. ENEMY'S NEW BLOWS. Serbian Victory in Balkans. Enemy's Disorderly Retreat I TO-DAY'S FRENCH OFFICIAL. To the south 01 the bomme, two sur- prise attacks attempted by the enemy on our outposts in the re- gion of Borleux, were easily re- pulsed. In Alsace, another surprise attack- directed after a violent bombard- ment against one of our trenches at Hilsenfirst (south-east of Metz- eral), likewise failed. fhe night was calm on the rest of the front. ARMY OF THE EAST. To the east of the Cerna. the Ser- I bians have captured the hedght1 north of Grunista. The enemy is falling back in dis- order on the Staraviak. There is no event of importance on the rest of the front. TO-DAY'S BRITISH OFFICIAL. During the night there was some hostile shelling in the Gueude- court area and Fonguevilliers. We bombarded heavily the enemy's front in the region of Mouchey. Otherwise there is nothing to report. TO-DAY'S RUSSIAN OFFICIAL. In the wooded Carpathians, battles for individual heights continue. Rumanian Front.—North of Trotus the enemy persistently attacked our detachments on the freshly occupied heights. Two of these attacks were arrested by us. South of Trotus obstinate fighting continues. In the Orituz Valley the Rumanians have repulsed the enemy attacks. In the Pitealata—Torgovistiga re- gion the Kumaiiiani), under unin- terrupted enemy pressure, are retiring. In the region between Alexandria and Bucharest, and south of it, obstinate fighting is still in pro- gress. The enemy, who here had been forced to adopt the defensive and retire, received reinforcements and • succeeded in occupying the village of Grudichtea. Rumanian troops, who attempted to attack the enemy in the? rear, were themselves attacked and compelled to retire.. SUNDAY'S SERBIAN OFFICIAL. Yesterday, in the region of Grunista, there were desperate combats on the enemy's fortified positions. We succeeded ill passing through the barbed wire entanglements and took a portion of the enemy's trenches. On the rest of the front there were small local operations of no great importance. —————  t  -——— BULGARIAN CLAIMS Our advance in Wallachia continues. We captured 200 prisoners and one gun. On the Danube there was artillery and rifle fire against Cernavoda Oltina. In the Dobrudja to-day the Russians continued the desperate attacks against the left wing of our position. After a vio- lent preparation by artillery, machiue- guns and infantry, and gun fire, which lasted the whole day, the Russians, at 6ix p.m., launched their seventh attack in the course of the last two days. lq.-he attack was repulsed with heavy loss, and of three armoured cars that took part. Two were destroyed and one driven back. — THE 6.30 LEADER." The Cambria Daily Leader" pub- lished on Saturday night in its 6.30 edi- tion a report which foreshadowed the higlily important Press Bureau state- ment regarding Government reconstrue- tion. We might also claim to have pub- lished it in our 5.30 edition on Saturday, inasmuch as the later portion of that issue contained the news. But when we say our 6.30 edition contained the re- port we mean what we say—that every person who bought that edition had a, I newspaper containing the report.

PEER'S SISTER IN CLOGS. Lady Londonderry, speaking at a; i meeting held at Worcester on Saturday under the auspioas of the Worcestershire War Agricultural Committee, said it was obvious that skilled labour must be re- tained on the farms, but farmers should five a guarantee that their skilled men would train other men or women. Sh" urged the employment of prisoners of war and greater use of labour-saving appli- ances. Lady Isabel Margeeeon, sister of the Earl of Buckinghamshire, said she thought women would work better if they were more suitably dressed. She quoted her own experience of wearing clogs while pulling turnips. I

A car load of creamery butteT—tb?e nret 1 consignment for England—has N?: shipped from Regina, Saskatchewan, to Manchester, the product having come from all three prairie provinces. Replying to a question in the Austra. lian House of Representatives, Mr Hughes sand he was in favour of allowing Aus- tralians who had participated in first landing in Gallipoli to wear aldifitiactive deooisatioj.

RUSSIA'S AIMS I CONSTANTINOPLE TO BE UNDER HER FLAG PREMIER'S EXPLICIT SPEECH I P&trograd, Saturday.—In the course of I a declaration which he read in the Duma! to-day M. Trepoft said he had to proclaim i from the Tribune that an agreement con- cluded last year between Russia, France and Great Britain to which Italy had subsequently adhered. definitely estab- lished Russia's right to the Straits and Constantinople. I The immediate programme of the i Government must be directed to one end —namely, to the winning of a conclusive victory.. In the course of his speech, M. Trepoft said: The Russian people should know for what they are shedding their blood, and in accord with our Allies the an- nouncement of this agreement is made to- d&y from this Tribune. ABSOLUTE AGREEMENT. I repeat that absolute agreement on ¡ this point is firmly established among the Allies, and there is no doubt that after I she has obtained sovereign possession of a free passage into the Mediterranean Russian will grant freedom of navigation for the Rumanian flag, which now, not for thfo first tim floats in battle Fide by side with the flag of Russia. (Prolonged applause). The enemy continues to occupy part! of our territory. We have to reconquer it and thus recover the Kingdom of Poland. temporarily detached by force of arms. But that is not enough. We must also wrest from our enemies the territories formerly Polish beyond the frontier, and we will then recont-t'f ute a Poland free j within its ethnographical boundaries and in inseparable union with Russia. Speaking of the ta6ks before us. and which the war has brought into relief. I cannot refrain from touching upon a question which lies close to the heart of every Russian. HOPE OF A THOUSAND YEARS. For more than a thousand years Russia has stretched out southward to- wards a free outlet on an open sea. The keys of t]?e B03phorU6 and the Dardan- elles Oleg's shield over the gate of Con- stantinople." I Oleg was a Russian prince of the ninth century, who much extended Russia's boundaries, removed the Capital to Kitfr. and in 906 conducted a victorious expedi- tion against Constantinople. I Continuing, M. Trepoff said: Theso have been the age-long dreams oherished in the hearts of the Russian people all through the different periods of its exis- tence. Well, those aspirations are ready for realisation. From the very commencement of the war, wishing to spare human lives and acting in accord with our Allies, we did our utmost to reetrmn Turkey from a mad participation in the hostilities. TURKEY'S FALSE STEP. France, Great Britain and Russia I made no effort to get Turkey to enter the war. They only urged her that, in her own interests, she should remain neutrai. At the same tilTle Turkey was given for- mal elesuraneerand promises guaranteeing her, in exchange for neutrality, the in- tegrity of her territory and her indepen- dence. and conferring upon her certain privileges and advantages. But these efforts were in vain, and, blinded by the deceptive promises of the Germane, Turkey attacked us surrepti- tiously and thus scaled her doom." When M. Trcl-yoft mounted the Tribune to read the Government statement the Extreme Left organised a noisy hostile demonstration, which prevented the Premier from speaking for three-quarter's of all hour. To put an end to the demonstration the President of the Duma pfopose o the ex- pulsion for eight sittings of ;12 Socialist and Labour members. The proposal was unanimously adopted, and M. Trepoff was then able to deliver his speech.-Reuter.

ITALY'S BETTER LINE. Important Gain on Carso Front. ITALIAN O-FF I C I AL. Rome, Sunday.—On the Trentino front there were artillery duels in the Adige. Astico, and Brenta Valleys. On the northern slopes of Dosso Casina (Cambras Valley) and Mount Seluggio small encounters took place. On the Julian front enemy artillery was particularly active in the Plava area and between east of Gorizia and the sea. Our batteries replied effectively, and hindered movements behind the enemy lines. On the Carso our troops straightened out the line on a front of one kilometre, advancing 300 metres in depth. Our aeroplanes bombed enemy billets at Dorimberga (Dornberg). and Tahor, on Jerigido (Vippach) Valley. All our machines returned safely. I

FAMOUS CRICKETER DEAD. I Mr. C. Green, the well-known cricketer, died at his residence at Epping on Mon- day morning. Born in August, 1846, his aaiive had been familiar to cricketers for over fifty years. He gained his blue at Carn. bridge as a Freshman in 1865, and he was in the Cambridge Eleven for four years,i b-in$r runrain in 1W8. In county cricket he played for Middlesex and Sus- sex before becoming closely associated witk Essex, the county of his birth.

BEER FOR WOUNDED. f For proeuring two quarts of beer for a I wounded soldier under treatment at the i Anzac Military Hospital at Mount Felix, Walton, Chas. Phillips, a cheesemonger, was at the Kingston-on-Thames Poliee Court on Saturday sentenced to a month's hard labour. Sergeant Marshall said that Phillips, who had been under suspicion for some time., had been cautioned against fetching intoxicants for wounded soldiers. I

AFTER HIS OWN HEART. I Tommy pleaded exemption from Church Parade on the grotmd that he was an aguostic. The S.M. assumed on expres- sion of iimoceBt interest. Don't you be- lieve in the Ten Commandments?" he mildly aslced the freethinker. U Not one, sir'" was the reply. Wihatt Not the rule about keeping the Sabbath ? No, sir! (" Ah, weil, you are Qt" very man been looking fur 6& scrub out the Sek,pentS' j)ie. "Tke IA"a= Park), jCbaaSkaad Ga«efcte^ j

GREEK CRISIS. .0- I "EXTREME GRAVITY" OF POSITION. STATEMENT IN COMMONS. In the House of Commons on Monday, Lord Robert Cecil said the situation in Greece is one of ex- treme gravity. The Government considered the responsibility of King Constantine and his Govern- ment was palpable in the involved treacherous and unprovoked attack made on a detachment of our Allies on Friday. They were considering, in conjunction with our Allies, mea- sures which will secure radical changes in the situation. MINISTER IN LONDON RESIGNS. The Exchange Telegraph Co. is in a position to state that consequent upon his inability to identify himself with the policy of his Government, M. Jno. Genalius, the Greek Minister in London, has tendered his resignation. It is also understood that the Greek Consul-General has followed the Mini- ster's example. GREEK SHIPPING HELD UP. Greek shipping is being held up in all the Bristol Channel ports, and not an ounce of coal or any other commodity will be shipped for the present. In Swan- sea there are only three Greek steamers at present, but in the respective Bristol Channel ports there ie a number, some al- ready loaded, and others waiting for car- goes, but until everything has been satis- factorily arranged the craft will remain in British waters. Earlier Greek news will be found on page 3.

BSG FRENCH AIR RAID. Artillery Activity on the Western Front. There is little but artillery activity re- corded in the week-end news from the Western front. Saturday night's British report showed that an enemy party entered our trenches north of Le Sacs, but was at once ejected Sunday night's British cuiicial is as follows:— Hostile artillery was active in the neigh- bourhood of Lesboeufs, and intermittent shelling on various parts of the front dur- ing the day There was much trench mortar activity t on both sides in the Neuvil-le St. Yaast r and lichenzollern areas and in the neigh- bourhood of Ypres and Armentieres. Reports show that our raiding parties last nighL "ast of Ypres, besides taking prisoners, caused many casualties to the enemy. FRENCH OFFICIAL. The follow Wig arc the only notable events reported in the French commu- niques. Sunday Afternoon.—During the night of the 2nd-3rd December, between 5.30 and 10 a.m., seven aeroplanes threw 720 kilo- grams of projectiles on the factories at Tliionville and on the enemy hangars and aviation cantonments at Strun (near Arras). Sunday Night.-The day was marked by rather great artillery activity to the south of the Somme in the region of Belloy-en-Santerre, and on the right bank of the Mense in the sectors oi Vaux and Douaumont.

THE VOLUNTEERS. Lord French Inspects 28,000 Men. Viscount French left London on Satur- day on his sixth Volunteer inspection tour. He was absent from town for about 35 hours, in which short time he travelled 650 miles and inspected 28,000 men in six northern oounties-Clwshire, Lancashire, Cumberland, Northumberland, Durham, j and Yorkshire. In the eeveral speeches he delivered Lord French took care to deny the suggestion that the Volunteers had been ignored or wilfully neglected. At Avenh&m Park, Preston, in the pre- sence of thousands of spectators, nearly 7,000 officers and men of the Lancashire Volunteers paraded. Lord French on Sunday first inspected 2,000 oStcers and men at Carlisle Castle at nine o'clock; three hours later he was in the Haymarket at Newcastle, where a? similar number of Volunteers paraded. Thence he proceeded to Durham; but the most imposing spectacle of the tour was witnessed in the afternoon on Knavesmire Racecourso, York, where 15,060 officers and men turned out. We are beginning to realise row," Lord French said 4iter the parade at York, what it is we are up against, and if we are to pull through we require cry male and every female in this country to put his or her hand to the plough un- grudgingly and uncomplainingly/* Lord Fbench returned to London on Sunday night.

TOO MANY SAUSAGES. I A woman who keeps a restaurant at Ashford, Kent, told a tribunal on Satur- day that a customer ordered six sausages for his breakfast, but she refused to supply so many, reminding him that other people wanted a share.

6d. LOAF DEMAND. I A resolution demanding that the Gov- ernment should purchase wheat on sound business lines, and that bread should be sold at a price not exceeding 6d. a quar- tern loaf, any loss to be met by the State, was passed at a labour conference in London on Saturday. Mr. John Stokes, who moved the reso- lution, said the price of the quartern leaf in Paris and Belgium was 7d., while in England the price was lflid. The issue of sugar tickets was advocated by Mr. W. C. Anderson, MT., at a Labour conference at Newcastle on Saturday.

Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario has placed Grant Hall, which can accom- modate 1.000 patients, at the disposal of' the Gn»ernment for convalescent soldiers.

NOVEL EVENT. I AMATEUR ARTISTES' COMPETITION AT 1 ThE EMPmE SWANSEA WAR CHARITIES Interest grows daily in the amateur artistes' competition which Mr. G. H. Richardson, the courteous and enterpris- ing manager of the Swansea Smpire, is promoting at the Empire next Saturday afternoon for war charities. About 70 entries from all parts of South Wales have been received, and the tickets are going extremely well. Booking is brisk, and there is every sign that the novel event will be an unqualified success. The proceeds of the competition will be devoted jointly to the 6th Welsh Commit- tee's fund and Mr. Frank Allen's Xmas Puddings for Tommy scheme. The varied oategories in which the amateur artistes who have entered can be classified indioute that the competition will be productive of much hearty fun and that there will be disclosed a good deal of line talent which has more or lees been latent in the past. The task of adjudication will be left to the audience, there being attractive prizes as follows: First, £ 10; 6rcond, Z5; third, Y,2 1 Os. Owing to the large number of entries, a preliminary test will be held during the week.

I 29,297 DEAD. I Mortality Among Prisoners in Germany. Amsterdam, Satiirday.-A Berlin tele- gram states that statistics have been pub- lished regarding the sanitary conditions among prisoners of war in camps in Ger- many. According to this on August 1st this I year there were 1,063,794 prisoners of war in Germany, 29,297 having died during two years of war.

I HEROES OF THE AIR. I Zeppelin Fighters Honoured I by the King. The Secretary of the Admiralty makes the following announcement:— The King has been pleased to approve of the award of the D.S.O. to Flight Sub-, lieut. Edward 0 Pulling, R.N.A S., and of the Distinguished Service Cross to Flight Lieut. G. Cadbury, and Flight Lieut. Gerard W. H. l ane, in recognition of their distinguish ad services on the oc- casion of the destruction of the Zeppelin, airship off the north coast in the early morning of Tuesday, November 28, 1916. i Lieutenant Egbert Cadbury is 23 years old. At the outbreak of war he left Trinity College. Cambridge, where he was studying for the law, and as an A.B. joined tlw crew of a converted yacht manned mostly by Cambridge men. After nearly a year at sea he entered the R.N .A-S-, .gained his pilot's certificate, and has been stationed on the East Coast for nearly 18 months. Lieut. Cadbury ia the younger son of Mr. George Cadbury chairman of Messrs. Cadbury Bros., Ltd., of Bournville, Birmingham.

ENERGY FEAR ATTACK. I 0 I Beds of Barbed Wire in No Man's Land. ———. • War Correspondents' Headquarters, Saturday.—German guns were much busier yesterday and to-day, for the frost has now lasted three days and the hard ground seems to make the enemy nervous of attack. He divines that we mean him to have no rest, and every time the weather becomes suitable for operations i he begins to fire on the off-chance of breaking up any attack that may be pend- ing. Other evidence of the Germans' anxiety to keep our men at arms' length is mani- fest in their feverish activity just now to wire themselves in" in their new positions. Frosty nights are especially suitable for the work of wire laying. White mist rises from the ground, and, under the double cover of this and the darkness, German working parties creep out into No Man's Land to lay out beds ot barbed' wire. Some are as much as 50ft. deep and 7ft. high. Our trench mortars and guns may play havoc with these beds during the day, but Fritz is full of patience and returns at night to replace them. The task of stalking and catching these night working parties between the trenches is one of the chief pastimes ot misty nights. Our men- ercep right close up to the Geriuai-ts with hand bombs and scatter them. Many prisoners have been taken in these night fights in the mist.

I LANDORE SECRETARY. I The death took place on Monday morn- ing, at his residence, Eaton-road, Bryn- hyfryd, of Mr. J. R. C. Cooper. Deceased was about 44 years of age, and secretary of the Landore and Ptasmarl Permanent Money Sooaety. He had been in failing health for some time, having recently undergone an operation for an internal complaint. He le-aves a widow and six children.

I CAPTAINED THE AFRICANS. W. A. Miller, who captained the South Africans in England on thé 1912-13 tour, has arrived here to fight, for Britain, being an officer of the South. African Im- I perial Force. I

LORRY OVERTURNS. I Two men belonging to the Post Office 1 Training Corps were killed on Sunday morning by the overturning of a motor, lorry near the foot of a hill at Meopham. There wem 25 men in the :Lqrry and several of them were injured.

VEGETABLES IN PARKS. At the last meeting of the Manchester Parks Committee, Mr. Pettigrew (the superintendent), whose work in South Wales is weM known, sta-ted that some- thing like MO worth of vegetables and fruit had been sold from one of the city's parks, and there :is still a quantity to be disposed of. This had been accomplished without depriving the public of any ?roMnd prevn<m?Iy available for recreation. If the gtress of circumstances, he added, made it necessary for the Committee to help in the production of food, something more serious than planting flower beds with potatoes and cabbages oaight easily bo undertaken-

RUMANIAN STANDj ENEMY HELD UP BEFORE BUCHAREST CERMAHY'S LATEST CLAiM I The Rumanian Army is fighting gal- lantly south-wast of the Bucharest ue of forte, where our Ailies, with 1iussian assistance, have repulsed the enemy. North-west of the city, about 35 miles from its line of forts, the Germans have taken Gaesti, captured 6 howitzers, and crossed the River Arges. Farthei- south they have driven the Rumanians back north-eastwards, towards the oilfields, by I a flanking move. Their plan, now that they have been checked south oftb diy, ,eme to h9 to turn it from the north. They claim to have taken 2,800 men and 15 guns at various points on Saturday. The Russians are still attacking on the East Transylvanian frontier. They have regained two villages on the Rumanian side and taken 800 prisoners. RUMANIAN OFFICIAL, I Jassy, Sunday.—On the western fron- tiers of Moldavia and in Northern Wal- lachia we attacked, and made 120 pri- soners. We fell back on the western front to- wards Titu on the Glavacedv and at I Mililov. In the Draganesci region we beat a Turkish division. We drove back Germans and Bulgarians in the Ghimpatsi-Mitsalesti region, cap- turing a numbar of prisoners and quan- tities of war material, which have not yet j been enumerated.—Press Association. 25 ENEMY GUNS TAKEN. Petrodgard, Sunday.-It is officially an- nounced that the operations west and south of Bucharest are taking a favour- able turn for the Rumanians, who have been reinforced by Russian troops. The Bulgarians and Germans have been forced to retire, a.nd a number of prisoners and a quantity of war material, including 2) guns, have been captured from them.- Press Association. BULGARIANS CRUSHED. Paris, Sunday.—M. Marcel Hutin, in the Echo de Paris," says:— In th-e Dobrudja Russian divisions, some of which are from Siberia, energetically crushed the Bulgarian forces north of Cernavoda, which locality they are draw- ing near. In Moldavia the Russians have not yet carried out their great effort.—Exchange BERLIN CLAIMS VICTORY. Amsterdam, Sunday (received MonPRy).1 | :—According to a Berlin onicial telegram, the battle of the Argesul, north-west of Bucharest, has been won by the Ninth, Army. The Kaiser has personally ordered the church bells to be rung to- morrow in Prussia and Alsace Lorraine in honour of the occasion.—Prees Associa- tion.

[HUNDREDS SLAIN IN GHENT. f Amsterdam, Monday.—According to ad- vices from Sluiskeil, two Belgians who have arrived there from Ghent, report that a revolt occurred in Antwerp on 30th November owing to inhabitants being called up for work in Germany. Between 200 and 300 persons, besides many Ger- man soldiers, are said to have been killed. I

STATE AID FOR FARMERS. I Speaking to the Worcester County War I Committee at Worcester on Saturday, Mr. Leslie Scott, K.C., M.P., said it was essen- tial that we should grow more food in England, yet hundreds of thousands of j acres threatened to go out of cultivation for want of labour, machinery, and fer- tiliaers. The Government must at once take the necessary powers to organise the industry, and the State must assist the farmers. The use of German prisoners, con- tinued Mr. Scott, had been postponed 'because of absurd ideas about the neces- jsity of keeping them in big gangs. Such big gangs are utterly usele66 on small | farms, and England generally is a land of email farm&

EMPLOYMENT OF ALIENS. I In a circular about the bringing of j aliens from abroad to fill positions in this country the Board of Trade repeat that I' their perm.iæion' mum first be obtained I except in -the case of munition workers. Permission i6 not required with regard to the employment of aliens already in this country.

I WELSH INDUSTRIES. The annual Christmas shopping week of the Welsh Industries Association (London depot) recently concluded at Grosvenor Gardens, London, has been very success-' -ful, In conversation with our London representative, the bon. secretary, Mrs. Richard Mashiter, said it was the beat sale they had ever 1had, as they took con- siderably over £100. There was a good I attendance of London Welsh ladies dur- ing the week.

DEATH OF SIR PAOLO roSTI-, I The death occurred in Rome on Satur- day, at the age of 68, of Sir F. Paolo ■ Tosti, the composer of the song, Good- bye, Summer," of which over 1,000,000 copies have been sold. He was bora it Abruzzi, Italy, and came to England in 1876. He was singing master to the Queen of Italy, and in England was appointed teacher of singing to the Royal Family. He was a favourite of Queen Victoria, a great friend of King Edward and Queen Alexandria, and after being given an Hon. C.V.O. in 1906 was made a K.C.Y.O. in 1908. I

SEVEN-YEAR-OLD JOCKEY. I Mr. G. S. Thompson, of Kirby Knowle, Thirsk, who has died at York, age 83, was in his younger days an amateur jockey whose greatest achievement was when, riding Lord Zetland's Hardrada, he beat Fred Archer on Oxlip by a head. Mr. Thompson rode his first winner when seven yeaw old. His father, having backed his hack against another man's without any stipulation as to weight, found to his surprise that a boy from a racing stable and the rider of winners was put up on the other horse. Young George Thompson was sent for, told to hold tight, and when they say I" Go,' gallop as fast as you can for home." He obeyed the instruction, won the race, and was handed back to bis mother through the window of tho family carr:-

TO-DAY'S Mi itESDIEi I Leader Office, 4.50 P-tn- I The latest phase of the political crisis is I the official statement that the Premier has advi&ed the King to consent to a reconstruction of iie Government. Allied troops at Athens were attacked by Greek Nationalists and Royalist troops, many casualties being inflicted. The King of Greece now offered nine batteries instead af his original offer of six. The Rumanian army is again falling back in fare of uninterrupted attacks. The new Russian Premier has informed the Duma 01 the A]Ik' agreement that Constantinople and the Straits are to become Russian. have be(-r4 Three Zeppelin fighters have been honoured by the King, one receiving tii? D.S.O. and the others (of whom one is a son of Mr. George Cad but. .he j Distinguished Service Cross. Italy, according to Sunday's official report, has improved her line on the I Carso front.

TO-DAY'S NEWS IN BRIEFI Mr. Balfour is going on well, and hopes to be about agin in a day or two. Mr. W. A. Jenkins, Baltic Buildings, Swansea, has been appointed Vice-Ccnsul for Denmark. The death has occurred in Northamp- tonsniiv ox Capt. E. Pennell Aimhurst, a famous writer on hunting subjects. Lloyd's state that the crew of the Japanese steamer Aagata Maru, pre- viously reported sunk, have been landjd. Melbourne, Monday.—Owing to unpre- cedente-d raxiirf and haiLsionns in Victoria and New South Wales, it is feared that wheat crops will suffer materially. The Saxon State Railways a'(; imposing to employ women in the place oi gllal- men, pointsmen, and locomotive stoiiers, as weil as in loading and unloading goods trains. At Constance schoolboys are em- ployed in loading goods aams. The fatal railway accident in Hungary on Thurstia^' appears w have been due to the disregard 01 a signal which, owing to the oil used, may not have given sufficient light, it was slated in evidence that the oil liad for some time been of an inferior quality. At a meeting held in Rotterdam to pro- test against the deportation of Belgians, a Socialist member of the Dutch Second Chamber declared: We Socialists dare net veutre to show our faces after the Wur, if we were not to protest now. If asked, will you therefore declare war on Ger- many, I would answer ies."

VALLEY MAN CHARGED Alleged Misuse cf King's I Uniform. Thomas Garfield Davies, said to belong to Pontardawe, ir.Lis broug! up at Cardiff on Monday charged with wearing the King's uniform without authority. Mr. F. W. EnsGr, Town Clerk's Depart- ment, who prosecuted, applied for a remand without calling any evidence. Mr. Reas W. Nicholas, who defended, agreed, to the application, and defendant \as remanded until Thursday.

FOOD BEFORE LIQUOR. -6 Mr. Lloyd George's Hint on New Problem. Mr. Lloyd George has made a significant statement on the liquor traffic in relation to the war-time food problem. Writing to Mr. Ellis Davies, M.P., on the question of State purehase and control of the liquor trade, he says:— Sinoo the beginning of the stupendous struggle on which we are all engaged the importanoe of this question has become greater and greater. Tentative efforts have already been made in this direction by the Board of Control. These, I be- lieve, have already produced excellent results in localities where they have been carried out. Now that the food problem is becom- ing every day more and more urgent the liquor problem has assumed a new aspect, and the nation must be prepared to see agricultural products put to the most urgent use. The German Chancellor's speech has made it quite clear that the German people are preparcd to suffeT any sacri- fice to attain the false ideals which, ap- parently, they still cherish. I have every confidence that our fellow-country- men will be ready to make even greater sacrifices than these to secure the tri- umph ofthose great principles of liberty and justice which have always been the precious heritage of our people. The letter was read at a meeting addressed by Sir Thos. Whittaker, M.P., at Carnarvon on Saturday.

NEATH V.T.C. INSPECTED. I Lord Plymouth Reviews the I Battalion. At Neath on Monday afternoon, Lord Plymouth inspected the 4t Battalion of the Glamorgan Volunteer Regiment. The men were drawn up in front of the Gwyn Hall under Major W. B. Trick (commandant)

CHAIRMAN OF N.C.F. I A. Fenner Brockway, acting chairman of the No-Conscription Fellowship and late editor of the Labour Leader," was courtmartialled at Chester CJastle on Saturday. The charge agamst" bim was that he refused to strip for medical ex- amination. The court found Brockway guilty, and sentence will be promulgated in due course

AIRMAN'S 8,000 FEET FALL. I I Second Lieutenant E. P. Roberts, Royal Sussex Regiment and the Royal Flying Corps, 'fell from an altitude of 8,000 feet during a flight recently. In a letter home he says: 1 Am out of it again for the winter. Had a miraculous escape recently. We were fighting seven Huns. My friend brought one down, and I shot another. I fell, out of control, for 8,000ft. I remem- ber falling, but don't remember hitting the ground. My machine was wrecked in a shell hole just inside our lines. At first my left leg was thought to be broken, but now I think it is only ( knee which is dislocated. Apa.rt from- • • J

MR. A.SQU3TH. Statesiant T; -:iay. fl.! Q.11 "S. In the House of Common" io-day, Mr. Ai-quith was-loudly chcc-.cd on entering the and during th-3 question a lerp-o number of members wrrc proe-ent o' .0 -ent on both sides, i:1. reply to a ,!n'>tioll as to hc hQ:jn!'ss to be iak?n bAore tho House* rises, said: I cannot b,-for-.6 t'ao r I ca-an(it said hoped proposals ss te increased food production would be shortly an. nounced. If afterwards there was a de- &u'f for a discussion tho raartcr would be considered. PARLIAMENT TO ADJOURN TO THURSDAY. I nthe House of Commons io-day Asquith announced that tho King, in his advice, had approved the- recon- struction of the GoTernmeiic. lie moved that the House, at the ccr.cl.icion vi to-day's business, should cdjcurn until Thursday. I ■ r BOMBARDMENT OF BUCHAREST. Copenhagen, iiionday.—A Berlin cor- respondent feports that the German an lllery, which is only standing eleven miles from thy city, yesterday lx-gan 1h3 bombardment of Bucharest. German I military writers emphasd-os the point tlitt tho- B"C".1. :11"f:St. fortress is anti- quated, and it is supposed that thero is an Insufficiency of ammunition. WELSH MINERS' WAGES. South Wales miners at Cardiff to-day eomsidored situation affecting the gen- eral wage rate, and accepted recommeu- datione of Executivo Committee to leave the whole matter entirely in their haftds with the understanding that Ahohld there be anything upon which the Executive might cosnider it desir- able to consult the Federation, another cojnfcrence should be held at a date to be fixed by the Executive. SWANSEA STOCK EXCHANGE. T Monday.—There was very little activity on the Swansea Stock Exchange to-day. :it, Colliery shares have 'been dull all round, with no <2bange in rrl. Shipping shares w; re active. and marked up. Court Lin^s changed hands at 45e. 3d., the price irapro-ring to 47e., but re-acted again, and closed at 446-. 6d., 45e. 6d Slaritimes were a etronff market, and the price closed 41b. al Ibuyors. Other departments were ne- glected. p t" I